What about the "people we can't trust"? That was one of the first things the lady said last week about the community we live in... it is full of people that we can't trust. Of course it is... if anything involves people... then there are people all around you that can't be trusted. Have you ever considered this from God's perspective?
From the beginning of time, we have been untrustworthy. Over and over and over we have let Him down. He has given us direction, guidance, love, mercy, discipline, and responsibility... and we still let Him down at every turn.
He didn't have the opportunity to take the time to "get to know us to see if He liked us or not." He knew us from the beginning... Psalm 139 says He knew everything about us before we were born... He knew we weren't good... and He loved us anyway.
What if God had taken this lady's approach instead? We would be in one heck of a mess. Stuck in the middle of a life that was falling apart... with no one around to walk through life with us. In the process of loving us, God even had the audacity to accept us and not be ashamed of us... "So Jesus is not ashamed to call [us] his brothers and sisters" Hebrews 2:11b. A holy God loves us, accepts us, and is not ashamed to announce that we are part of our family... while we are in the middle of living unholy lives... and we somehow feel that we have the right to disassociate ourselves with "people that can't be trusted"... do you see the hypocrisy in this?
Building relationships with "people that can't be trusted" is not safe... but no one is trustworthy... so if safety is our ultimate goal in life, then we must seclude ourselves from everyone... and that is not how God has called us to live.
***more next time
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